VHDL projects in emacs

[jerzy.gbur@gmail.com]

Hello,
I'm FPGA designer, I work on Xilinx ISE tools (MS Windows XP).
I've started to use emacs a week ago. It looks very impressive.

But..
1. How can I organize working with projects? I have some projects
added to environment through putting their definition in .emacs file.
It looks messy for me. How can I do other way? How you do that?

2. Is there possibility to mark column region for copy/cut?

Best Regards,

Jerzy Gbur

 

[Mark McDougall]

jerzy.gbur@gmail.com wrote:

I've started to use emacs a week ago. It looks very impressive.
But..

There are 2 types of people in this world - those that can use emacs, and
those that can't. It is decided at birth, and there's nothing you can do
to change that!

(For the record, I can't use emacs)

Regards,

--
Mark McDougall, Engineer
Virtual Logic Pty Ltd, <http://www.vl.com.au>
21-25 King St, Rockdale, 2216
Ph: +612-9599-3255 Fax: +612-9599-3266

 

[Martin Thompson]

"jerzy.gbur@gmail.com" <jerzy.gbur@gmail.com> writes:

Hello,
I'm FPGA designer, I work on Xilinx ISE tools (MS Windows XP).
I've started to use emacs a week ago. It looks very impressive.

Good choice Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of emacs!

But..
1. How can I organize working with projects? I have some projects
added to environment through putting their definition in .emacs file.
It looks messy for me. How can I do other way? How you do that?

Export the project (Vhdl..project..export) to the same folder as your
HDL files. When you open an HDL file, VHDL-mode looks for a .prj file
in the same folder. Alternatively, when you have a hierarchy of
folders and you open a file further down, you can do
Vhdl..Project..Import project (or prod C-c C-p C-m) and you can read a
project file in.

2. Is there possibility to mark column region for copy/cut?

Yes, but it's a bit weird if you've used any "normal" editors

Set the mark at one corner of the rectangle, set the cursor to the
other corner and do M-x kill-rectangle. You can then do M-x
yank-rectangle to put it somewhere else.

However, I do very little of this, as my usual reason for hacking
around rectangles of text was for instantiating components and
creating signal lists from entity declarations, which VHDL-mode does
very nicely for me with just a few key pressses

Cheers,
Martin

--
martin.j.thompson@trw.com
TRW Conekt - Consultancy in Engineering, Knowledge and Technology
http://www.conekt.net/electronics.html

 

[jerzy.gbur@gmail.com]

On 2 Lip, 10:46, Martin Thompson <martin.j.thomp...@trw.com> wrote:

"jerzy.g...@gmail.com" <jerzy.g...@gmail.com> writes:
Hello,
I'm FPGA designer, I work on Xilinx ISE tools (MS Windows XP).
I've started to use emacs a week ago. It looks very impressive.

Good choice Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of emacs!

But..
1. How can I organize working with projects? I have some projects
added to environment through putting their definition in .emacs file.
It looks messy for me. How can I do other way? How you do that?

Export the project (Vhdl..project..export) to the same folder as your
HDL files.  When you open an HDL file, VHDL-mode looks for a .prj file
in the same folder.  Alternatively, when you have a hierarchy of
folders and you open a file further down, you can do
Vhdl..Project..Import project (or prod C-c C-p C-m) and you can read a
project file in.

Ok, I will do experiments.

2. Is there possibility to mark column region for copy/cut?

Yes, but it's a bit weird if you've used any "normal" editors

Set the mark at one corner of the rectangle, set the cursor to the
other corner and do M-x kill-rectangle.  You can then do M-x
yank-rectangle to put it somewhere else.

Yeah, it works ))

Thank you,


Best Regards,

Jerzy Gbur

 

[Nicolas Matringe]

jerzy.gbur@gmail.com a écrit :

On 2 Lip, 10:46, Martin Thompson <martin.j.thomp...@trw.com> wrote:

2. Is there possibility to mark column region for copy/cut?
Yes, but it's a bit weird if you've used any "normal" editors

Set the mark at one corner of the rectangle, set the cursor to the
other corner and do M-x kill-rectangle. You can then do M-x
yank-rectangle to put it somewhere else.

There are key bindings for these
C-x r k for killing the rectangle
C-x r y for yanking it
C-x r t to replace the rectangle with text
There are others but I never use them

Nicolas

 

[Reuven]

On Jul 2, 11:00 am, Nicolas Matringe <nicolas.matri...@fre.fre> wrote:

jerzy.g...@gmail.com a écrit :

On 2 Lip, 10:46, Martin Thompson <martin.j.thomp...@trw.com> wrote:
2. Is there possibility to mark column region for copy/cut?
Yes, but it's a bit weird if you've used any "normal" editors

Set the mark at one corner of the rectangle, set the cursor to the
other corner and do M-x kill-rectangle.  You can then do M-x
yank-rectangle to put it somewhere else.

There are key bindings for these
C-x r k for killing the rectangle
C-x r y for yanking it
C-x r t to replace the rectangle with text
There are others but I never use them

Nicolas

From Section 18.3 in the emacs user's guide.

18.3 Saving Rectangles in Registers
==================================
A register can contain a rectangle instead of linear text. The
rectangle is represented as a list of strings. *Note Rectangles::,
for
basic information on how to specify a rectangle in the buffer.

`C-x r r R'
Copy the region-rectangle into register R
(`copy-rectangle-to-register'). With numeric argument, delete it
as well.

`C-x r i R'
Insert the rectangle stored in register R (if it contains a
rectangle) (`insert-register').

The `C-x r i R' command inserts a text string if the register
contains one, and inserts a rectangle if the register contains one.

See also the command `sort-columns', which you can think of as
sorting a rectangle. *Note Sorting::.


After practice, it's easier than initially perceived.

regards,
r

 

[jerzy.gbur@gmail.com]

On 3 Lip, 19:07, Reuven <rpaley...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jul 2, 11:00 am, Nicolas Matringe <nicolas.matri...@fre.fre> wrote:





jerzy.g...@gmail.com a écrit :

On 2 Lip, 10:46, Martin Thompson <martin.j.thomp...@trw.com> wrote:
2. Is there possibility to mark column region for copy/cut?
Yes, but it's a bit weird if you've used any "normal" editors

Set the mark at one corner of the rectangle, set the cursor to the
other corner and do M-x kill-rectangle.  You can then do M-x
yank-rectangle to put it somewhere else.

There are key bindings for these
C-x r k for killing the rectangle
C-x r y for yanking it
C-x r t to replace the rectangle with text
There are others but I never use them

Nicolas

From Section 18.3 in the emacs user's guide.

18.3 Saving Rectangles in Registers
==================================
A register can contain a rectangle instead of linear text.  The
rectangle is represented as a list of strings.  *Note Rectangles::,
for
basic information on how to specify a rectangle in the buffer.

`C-x r r R'
     Copy the region-rectangle into register R
     (`copy-rectangle-to-register').  With numeric argument, delete it
     as well.

`C-x r i R'
     Insert the rectangle stored in register R (if it contains a
     rectangle) (`insert-register').

   The `C-x r i R' command inserts a text string if the register
contains one, and inserts a rectangle if the register contains one.

   See also the command `sort-columns', which you can think of as
sorting a rectangle.  *Note Sorting::.

After practice, it's easier than initially perceived.

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Hello,

Thank all of you.
All advices are very helpful.

Every day, using emacs is easier then before

Best Regards,

Jerzy Gbur

 

[Nicolas Matringe]

jerzy.gbur@gmail.com a écrit :

Hello,

Thank all of you.
All advices are very helpful.

Every day, using emacs is easier then before

And then one day you start looking into regular expressions, then lisp
(well, elisp actually) ...

Nicolas